tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: K.413
Title: Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
Description: Clay tablet, the ends of lines are throughout broken off, part of a private contract, dated September-October 687 B.C., Neo-Assyrian.
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian
Production date: 687BC (Sept-Oct)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Sir Austen Henry Layard (et al)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik
Materials: clay
Dimensions: Length: 4.40 centimetres (incomplete); Thickness: 1.50 centimetres (complete); Width: 2.90 centimetres (complete)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: legal
Curator's comments: Cf. Smith, G., 1878. 'The Assyrian Eponym Canon'. London: S. Bagster and Sons, p.90; Smith, G., 1878. In A.H. Sayce (ed.) 'History of Sennacherib / translated from the cuneiform inscriptions'. London, Williams and Norgate, p.18.
Bibliographic references: Bezold 1889a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum (p.102); Kwasman & Parpola, SAA 6 / Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath Pilesar III through Esarhaddon (no. 157); CDLI / Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (P334995) (http://cdli.ucla.edu/P334995)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Ashurbanipal
Department: Middle East
Registration number: K.413

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